Switzerland Road trips

4 curated road trips in Switzerland — Swiss Alpine Passes, Lavaux Vineyards, Susten–Grimsel–Furka Loop. Mapped stops, distance, duration, best season, and practical route notes.

These 4 routes range from 30 to 600 km and from 1 to 6 days, across 1 country. Top picks: Swiss Alpine Passes, Lavaux Vineyards, Susten–Grimsel–Furka Loop.

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  LegendarySwiss Alpine PassesSwitzerland · 600 km · 4–6 daysSwitzerland's greatest road trip connects its most legendary Alpine passes, the Grimsel, Furka, Gotthard, and Susten, through glaciers, electric-blue lakes, and mountain villages where the only sounds are cowbells and wind.
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  NotableLavaux VineyardsSwitzerland · 40 km · 1 dayA short but sublime drive along Route 9 above the northern shore of Lake Geneva, through the UNESCO World Heritage Lavaux wine terraces that stagger up from the water in sheer stone-walled tiers that beggar belief. The road links the higgledy-piggledy French-speaking city of Lausanne to Château de Chillon, an extraordinary 13th-century fortress immortalised in Lord Byron's poem.
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  LegendarySusten–Grimsel–Furka LoopSwitzerland · 120 km · 1 dayThe most concentrated Alpine pass loop on Earth, three legendary roads in a single circuit. The Susten crosses a granite wilderness, the Grimsel skirts black glacial reservoirs, and the Furka passes the Rhône Glacier, where Bond once drove an Aston Martin.
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  IconicFurka PassSwitzerland · 31 km · Half–1 daySomething of a rite of passage for hardcore Alpine cyclists, Switzerland's Furka Pass is enshrined in motoring legend through its starring role in the Aston Martin/Ford Mustang car chase in James Bond's Goldfinger (1964). An Alpine pass and a half, with hairy switchbacks to an otherworldly 2,431 m plateau, the Rhône Glacier visible from the Hotel Belvédère, and deeply fissured blue ice grotto.